Famous quotes containing the words republican, air and/or force:
“A Republican by principle and devotion, I will, until my death, oppose all Royalists ... and all enemies of my Government and the Republic.”
—Jean Baptiste Bernadotte (17631844)
“There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet; impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves. The soul lives in a sickly air. People can be slave-ships in shoes.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (18911960)
“My dear Kafka,
When youve had five years of it, not five months,
Five years of an irresistible force meeting an immoveable object right in your belly,
Then youll know about depression.”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)